Red-necked Stint

Calidris ruficollisOrder: CHARADRIIFORMES Family: Sandpipers (Scolopacidae)

Codes: Common Name: RNST Scientific Name: CALRUF ITIS Taxonomic No.: 176659

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Red-necked Stint

Red-necked Stint: Small sandpiper with mottled brown upperparts and streaked cap. Underparts are white; upper breast is rust-brown and spotted. Face and throat are unstreaked rust-brown. Bill, legs and feet are black. Forages on shore, sometimes probes mud. Swift direct flight with rapid wing beats.

● Song: "wheet, wheet, whek, whek"

● Foraging & Feeding: Red-necked Stint: Eats insects and other small invertebrates; forages in wet grassland and soft mud, mainly picking up food by sight.

● Breeding & nesting: Red-necked Stint: Four yellow eggs with red brown spots at larger ends are laid on the ground on a small pile of grass or tundra moss lined with willow leaves. Incubation ranges from 21 to 23 days and is carried out by both parents.

● Similar species: Red-necked Stint: These birds are very small waders, very similar to Little Stint, with which they were once considered conspecific.

Flight Pattern

Swift direct flight with rapid wing beats.

● Range & Habitat: Red-necked Stint: Breeds on tundra in arctic northeast Siberia; migrates through Siberia, Mongolia, China, Japan, and southeast Asia to Australia. Preferred habitats include saline sand bars and tidal mudflats along coasts.

^BreedingMonogamous, Colonial

^PopulationUncommon to rare

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight1.1 Ounces

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

Field Guide to Birds of North America

Red-necked Stint

Red-necked Stint

Flight Pattern